Dr. Mistry serves as the Deputy Executive Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, she leads operational and strategic planning efforts to support programmatic initiatives within OASH and across HHS.  Prior to assuming this role in 2024, Dr. Mistry spent more than a decade at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) at HHS, serving in multiple scientific and leadership roles, including Associate Director for the Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations and the Agency Lead & Senior Advisor for Maternal Child Health and Health Equity.  She simultaneously oversaw the core functions related to the Agency's extramural research and training programs and also focused on directing maternal and child health quality and safety programs in collaboration with other HHS and external partners, including the Pediatric Quality Measures Program and the AHRQ’s Safety Program for Perinatal Care.  

Prior to coming to AHRQ, she served as the Program Director for the Healthy Steps for Young Children National Evaluation at Johns Hopkins, which focused on examining innovative practice-based models for improving quality of care and child outcomes.  Formerly, she has led a number of research initiatives at the state-level focused on improving care for priority populations, including evaluating the Title V and Medicaid program in Texas.  

Dr. Mistry completed her NRSA post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  She received a PhD from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health and an MPH from the Department of Health Policy and Management, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  In addition to her role at HHS, she is a Part-Time Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of General Pediatrics, where she mentors post-doctoral fellows and conducts research.